{"id":292,"date":"2016-02-18T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/?p=292"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T12:37:44","slug":"lune-letters-project-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/18\/lune-letters-project-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00fcne Letters Project takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Henrike L\u00e4hnemann<\/a> (Chair in Medieval German, Oxford, and Fellow of St Edmund Hall) and Eva Schlotheuber (Chair in Medieval History, D\u00fcsseldorf) have been granted a three-year fully funded project by the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung to edit one of the most extensive and significant collections of medieval letters. The \u2018Nuns\u2019 Network\u2019 will give open access to the correspondence of the Benedictine nuns of L\u00fcne between ca. 1460 and 1555.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colourful corpus, comprising nearly 1800 letters written in Latin, Low German and a characteristic mix of both languages, is a unique testimony of female writing in the Middle Ages. The edition brings to light a forgotten culture of late medieval letter-writing. The nuns formed a network of religious, social and economic alliance through the whole Hanseatic region in their correspondence with important political and religious powers of their time and in the ‘intranet’ of the daily exchange with the neighbouring convents on the L\u00fcneburg Heath. The correspondence also provides insight into the women\u2019s specific communicative needs which incorporated both daily business and spiritual aspiration \u2013 and how they reacted to and engaged with the Lutheran Reformation which was energetically proposed by the Duke of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg and equally vehemently opposed by the nuns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project brings together a British-German working group in an interdisciplinary approach to allow a comprehensive insight into the communicative and rhetorical strategies and the knowledge exchange which created the nuns\u2019 networks. One of the two Research Assistants will be Edmund Wareham (Jesus College), currently finishing his DPhil on another late-medieval German convent, the nuns of G\u00fcnterstal. The digital framework for the edition will be hosted by the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenb\u00fcttel, built on the open access edition of the letters by Andreas Karlstadt<\/a> which was developed by Jennifer Bunselmeier<\/a> (St Edmund Hall). One of the most exciting features of the project will be to work closely together with the successors of the letter writings, the female Protestant community living in Kloster L\u00fcne. (Watch a video-clip of an interview with the abbess of L\u00fcne, Baroness Reinhild von der Goltz, here.<\/a>) It complements the Knowledge Exchange funded project \u2018Recording the Reformation<\/a>\u2019 which will see a group from Oxford travel to Kloster L\u00fcne next July. Thus the nuns\u2019 network, spanning across a seminal century of late medieval reform and reformation, will widen its cast to also link 21st century German and British scholarship and public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project started on 5\/6\u00a0February 2016 with a two-day workshop at St Edmund Hall, with the whole binational team and also invitations to representatives of the Klosterkammer (the monastic chamber of the L\u00fcneburg convents) and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenb\u00fcttel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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